The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-16
IN THE BATH ROOM.
A CLEAN OLD CUSTOM -ANOEC
DOWN FROM ANTIQUITY.

The Various styles Of Baths. Their His
tory and Charaeteristics-Ths PRINT
tive Bath-Turkish and Russian Baths
The Mud Bath.
The bath is a. old a. the hills II co-oe.
down from the mast remote a1tinuitv
The Egyptians used to battle IN the Me
The Hebrews made bathing COMPULSORY
by law, and the Aohamnedans and Hin
docs enforce 1t as duty Of religlou.
PaoHc baths were among the public inst
tutIons Of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks
and Romans. II Phsraoh-s lovely
daughter hadn't gone bathing IN THE Nile
Moses might never have been discovered
n the blllrushes. II Eausfcza and her
fair companions had not baGhed them
selves IN the waters II the sea the ship
Wfecy-ed JIgsse might never have been
rescued 80 i VIII be seen that the bath
= koa-y, -1lEraols and patriarckaI
B1t The primitive bath was s.zalIe
press compared With the elaborate b1-h
u modern times. II vss merely =
plange into the LIapld water II some
Rowing stream. Nov the bath l. q sclen
t1fc process, presided over By competent
attendants and regulated By the watch
and the Thermometer The bath most
popular with the American people bar
ring u course, the domestic tub. i the
Turkish bath. Why il Is called Turk
t5b' suFpasseth al understanding Il j.
probably, though, because the Turks re-
cline IN most luZuriant bath In perfUned
water, While about the edges Of Snr mar
be basin grow fragrant flowers and bloom
ing rose trees, filing the apartment with
their ravishing scent. The Turkish bath
was first introduced into England about
the middle Of the DIS by a uobIe.nan.
David UrquhaTt by name, who had re
ce1yed the impression IN the Orient. This
country adopted the Turkish bath about
twenty years ago
TAKING TURKISH BATH
Have you ever taken a Turkish BATH
Nor Then, ia the language Of Edwin
Forrest, you have never risen to the dig
nifty Of being personally clean"
When you go to Turkish bath house
yOu first enter the Office. where you regis
ter, deposit your valuables and receive n
check for them. Then you pass into the
nuctaly. 'MuctaIy' must be the Turk
for cool room. At any rate mUctaly j. tIe
cool room. In one Of the numerous com
partments Of this apartment you disrObo
and invest yourself IL q bathing garment.
then you pass into the warm room, the
tepidanum, they call il where You en-
counter a temperature OF 40 70 40 degs
Fahrenheit. Here you recIine on n couch
When the skin has become sufficiently
soft and moist-the attendant frequently
passes his hand over the body to ascertain
il it has arrived at the proper 5tate-yOu
are ushered into the hot room, which =
plain English for the calidauum, IS the
apartment il called, where the temperature
il 40 degs. higher than in the warm room.
In the hot room the attendants lay you
upon heated marble slab and the
yaoraufratfor Llacofoas moro and mora r7ro-
fuse, while the attendant thoroughly
manipulates the body with towel. From
this room you pass into still hotter hot
room, where the temperature is 220 10 240
degrees. You persptTe few more times
in this room. when you are conducted into
the gbsmpOoing room. where enough tepid
water is sprtnklad over you to remove the
Precipitation. Then you are stretched out
upon another marble slab and receive
another manipulation. The wind up con
sists In the attendant thoroughly washing
the body with lather Of soap and water.
sprinkling the bather over with tepid
spray and the bather taking a plunge in
the swimming bath.
THE RUSSIAN BATH
The Russian bath is so called because
the Russians from long ago have INDUCED
in a hot vapOr bath. The Russian bath
differs from the Turkish bath in this
the room is filed with hot vapOT; in the
Turkish bath the room is filed with hot
air.
The Russian bath 10 attaining pOpu-
larity with the busy. busting American
people for the reason that IL doesn't teke
long. A Russian bath can be taken in
quarter the time that ii requires for a
Turkish bath. A comparatively new idea
in baths Is the electric bath. This Is a
medicated bath prescribed for neuralgia,
rheumatism and all forms Of nervous dis .
orders. The bathers enter q bath tub. .
around the inside of which are q number
Of electric buttons. During the bath a
current Of electricity Is turned into the
water through these conductors from a
battery, manipulated by an attendant
The sensation, instead Of being unplea~
sant, Or producing a shock such Is con
tect with a battery produces is said TO be
one Of Intense delight.
The mud bath IS indulged IL almost en .
tirely a. q Tenedy for blood disorders
The batAer is placed IN bath tub AID
covered up % the Cl11 with 2 thick coat
of fresh warm coating IS applied Tbs
heated mud IS supposed to act a. poUl
tice and draw out the impurities Of the
system. There Is one peculiarly about
the Turkish bath that IS not generally /.
known, and that IS its influence TO pre- I
serve the equilibrium Of the bather's T.
weight. If the bather is above his normal I
weight, that Is, above weight suitable 70 /.
his build and temperament, the Turkish /
bath VIII reduce him. II he Is below his {
normal weight it VIII increase it.-Cin- /
cinnati Enquirer.